How should #higherEd govern #freeSpeech? A new (and free) paper in Philosophical Quarterly argues that the parties to this debate haven't sufficiently based their proposals on (a) the goals of #education or (b) scientific tests of the assumed mechanisms. doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqa…

"#ChatGPT4 [passed] the majority of UK postgraduate medical examinations [and even] outperformed the historical average ...applicants from all medical schools." "ChatGPT-3.5 failed eight out of nine ...exams..." doi.org/10.1371/journa… #medicine #edu #AI #teaching #assessment

Does instructor-led #dialogue improve #criticalThinking? A new (and free) paper found dialogue classes' essays scored higher in "critical reasoning", but didn't score better on tests of argument evaluation or objection. doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.… #logic #edu #teaching #assessment

🤓 Stimulating DLPFC often impacted performance on NUMERIC cognitive reflection tests (including a base rate neglect task), but not performance on VERBAL cognitive reflection tests (N = 48): doi.org/10.1016/j.heli… #neuroscience #processTracing #decisionScience #psychometrics

Want to do deeper with #science, #news, and #history? Some of my favorite researchers like @CailinMeister and communicators like @DanFalk have done great work in Nautilus Magazine for deeply curious people like us! Find Nautilus's wide range of topics at nautil.us/ref/85740/

Some of my favorite #teaching and #studying methods were ineffective when tested. So I reviewed evidence of ineffective and effective methods and discussed how #publicationBias and #conflictsOfInterest can cause overrated trends. You may be surprised! psychologytoday.com/us/blog/upon-r…

People from elite #universities were often even more overrepresented than people thought! But democratic mechanisms like #elections seemed correlated with more proportionate concentrations of elites. Side note: @APAphilosophy was among the worst over-representers of elites?